After our post about the G1 battery door replacements covers, I started thinking about Android and the last few years of its life. We, as a whole, have come quite a long way in a fairly short time. The advancement from 2.5″ screens to 4.52″. Going from low-res to hi-res and then came the tablets. We knew it was coming, it was just a matter of when. Thanks to marketing, when I think Android tablets I only think of three. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola XOOM and ASUS Transformer. One company that I haven’t heard of recently, that I distinctively remember at the end of the 2010, is ARCHOS. What ever happened to them? Apparently a lot. They have a whole host of products that I am itching to get my hands on. Lets take a look at a few that I am personally eyeballing.

The first tablet that caught my eye is the ARCHOS 8.0 G9. This is an 8″ tablet running Honeycomb 3.2. Screen resolution is 1024 X 768. Internally the G9 is packing some pretty good hardware. It is housing an ARM dual-core CORTEX A9 OMAP™ 4 1.5 GHz processor. Those are just the basics, but not what truly caught my eye and made me wonder why I haven’t seen this thing being talked about more. The internal memory is optional at either 8GB or 16GB with support for a up to a 32GB micro SD card. What if that is just not good enough for you. Say you want more memory. Then simply order the G9 that is packing a Seagate® Momentus® Thin hard drive with 250GB! Ya, you read that right, 250GB HDD! Guess what, the hits just keep on coming. Sporting a 720p front facing camera to give full HD video calls. A final slap across the face to the other tablet manufactures is the tablets 3g ready concept. Why be stuck with a Wi-Fi only tablet, or sign another lengthy contract with a carrier to get 3g data connectivity. The G9 is not only 3g ready, but it is handled in a way that can only be described as “What!?!” On the rear of the device is a compartment door that opens. With the purchase of the G9 3g stick, which with house any standard SIM card on the market, you simply slide it into place. OK, so you have to buy another accessory item to get the 3g connectivity, but what makes it so unique is the stick is a standard USB data stick and is also compatible with any PC on the market. So this one accessory can provide your data to the tablet, your laptop and your home PC. Best of all, when the stick is attached to the tablet, you don’t even know it’s there.